Distant Race App
Join exciting step challenges!
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Build daily step streaks, filter challenge results by stage, explore points breakdowns, relive community recap photos, download diplomas, and celebrate milestones.
Get ready to step up your fitness levels with our user-friendly step challenge app! Whether you are a fitness enthusiast or just starting your wellness journey, our app is designed to motivate towards heathier lifestyle and add some adrenaline rush by competing with others! Participate anytime and anywhere that suits you best!
With our app, you can easily track your daily steps, distance and burned calories, and compete with other participants, or with your friends and colleagues. Our intuitive interface and user-friendly features make tracking and analyzing your progress effortless.
Discover a variety of step challenges designed to fit your interests and fitness level. From themed challenges to team competitions, there is always something challenging and exciting happening in our app. Stay motivated with real-time updates, leaderboards, and friendly competitions that will push your limits.
Join like-minded community that shares a passion for daily fitness competitions! Download our app now and step-by-step reach your goals! Challenge yourself and others!
This app provides the simplest and fastest way to upload workouts that are stored on iOS device, by reading the tracking and heart-rate data from HealthKit. This means that exporting is not limited to workouts recorded with the Apple Watch. Any workout visible in the Health app, regardless of how it was recorded, can be sent to Distantrace.com. App also read Daily Activity data (steps, distance & active calories) from HealthKit and send this data to distantrace.com.
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1.5.2 1d ago
Daily Streaks, stage results filtering, and community recap photos.
• Daily Step Streaks: build consecutive daily streaks toward your step goal, celebrate milestones, recover missed days, and share streak cards
• Interactive Stage Results: tap any stage card above the leaderboard to filter standings and rankings for that specific stage
• Points Scoring Breakdown: explore points earned per sport and bonus rules, plus secondary distance and step stats on leaderboards
• Community Photos in Challenge Recap: relive shared moments in your Wrapped story deck with full-screen photo viewing
• View & Download Diplomas: access, share, and download PDF diplomas directly from recaps and participant details
• Cleaner Home Screen: ended events roll off Home after 7 days into Events → Past, keeping results and bib history accessible
• Local Timezone Display: workouts now display in the local time of where they were recorded
Plus background sync fixes and stability improvements throughout.
1.5.0 2d ago
Challenge Recaps, smart activity deduplication, and immediate certificates.
• Challenge Recap: celebrate completed challenges with an interactive Wrapped story deck, collective impact milestones, team podiums, and official PDF & video downloads
• Smart Activity Deduplication: overlapping workouts synced from Garmin, Apple Health, Strava, or in-app recording are clustered to prevent double-counting, with easy provider switching
• Immediate Passport Certificates: download your official diploma the moment you complete all routes
• Direct Post Notifications: tap organizer post alerts to open the announcement and conversation directly
• Clearer Results: non-ranked challenges now show completion percentage instead of rank standings
Plus hardened background GPS recording, faster startup, and reliability improvements throughout.
1.4.8 Sep 15
Smoother route maps and more reliable workout recording.
• Route Passport maps: checkpoint pins and routes now display reliably on the map, with direct pin tapping and a new checkpoints list from the map legend
• Feed workout maps: posts with workout routes now frame your activity track immediately at the right zoom, eliminating map flicker and jumpy route playback
• Smooth rest stops: fixed an issue where resting or standing still with your phone locked could interrupt workout recording
Plus improved background stability and reliable GPS tracking throughout.
1.4.7 Sep 13
More reliable workout tracking and faster finishes.
• Continuous background GPS: routes and distances now record smoothly while your screen is locked or the app is in the background, with automatic gap recovery upon return
• Smart tunnel & canopy bridging: keeps your workout route continuous across tunnels, underpasses, and tree cover instead of splitting your track
• GPS stall alerts: automatic warning banner and paused moving time if GPS signal is lost during an activity
• Instant workout completion: eliminated delays when finishing workouts, with clear feedback while your data is safely saved
• Redesigned in-app alert banners with high-contrast dark theme styling
Plus crash fixes when saving workouts and improved stability throughout.
1.4.6 Sep 12
New: Route Passports and enhanced challenge results.
• Explore Route Passports: discover and complete entire route networks in cycling challenges, follow checkpoints, and accumulate coverage across multiple rides
• View personal completion times, explore interactive checkpoint stories, and unlock official completion diplomas
• Preview challenge routes and start points before you ride
• Step challenges now display virtual trees planted, calories burned, and day-by-day step breakdowns in results
• Jump straight to challenge discussions directly from the results header
• Rate DistantRace easily under Profile → Support
Plus seamless session renewal so you stay signed in, direct update alerts, and reliability fixes throughout.
1.4.5 Sep 11
Registered races now have a richer in-app experience.
• See upcoming race entries on Home, including your distance, start time, and race number.
• Link a Run, Ride, or Walk to the correct competition - or keep it as a regular workout. Live location sharing remains a separate choice.
• Explore event information, organizer pages, start lists, teams, standings, maps, and official results without leaving the app.
• Receive race updates in Notifications and open the relevant competition or result.
• Open organizer documents, view detailed official results, and see diplomas when available.
• Review a matched workout privately and decide whether its route, pace or speed, splits, and elevation may appear publicly with your result.
• Challenge leaderboards now show the value for the selected sort.
We’ve also improved walking GPS continuity, sign-in reliability, and full-screen photos. On iPhone, imported Apple Health workouts can now pick up an Apple Watch GPS route that arrives after the workout summary.
1.4.4 Sep 8
Shared workouts now come alive in Posts.
• Explore activity stats, sharper photo galleries and privacy-safe animated routes, with full-screen maps and photos.
• Read comments and join post conversations where enabled.
• Edit or delete your own posts, see when a post was edited and view team names in challenge feeds.
• Discover suggested challenges in the global feed.
• See each challenge’s main goal, rules, points system and supported recording apps before you join.
We’ve also improved route-map framing, playback, accessibility and feed reliability.
1.4.3 Sep 4
New: Directions for workouts.
• Search for an address, choose Home, Work or a saved place, or pick an exact destination on the map.
• Preview the route, distance, estimated time and ascent before starting.
• Follow live route progress during your workout and manually reroute from your current position.
• Save and rename favorite places, and quickly reuse recent destinations.
Challenge results are clearer too: your own result and team stay correctly pinned, and team averages display as intended. Event maps now open in the correct event area from the start.
We’ve also made route-planner waypoint limits easier to understand and improved reliability throughout.
1.4.2 Sep 2
Plan, follow and share your workouts in a whole new way.
• Create routes by drawing on the map or importing a GPX file.
• Browse your routes, follow one during a workout and compare your effort when you finish.
• Swipe through live pace, speed, heart rate, elevation, splits and route progress while you record.
• Create a custom workout card, save it to Photos, share it with friends or upload the activity to Strava.
• Share your live location with people in your active events and see live participants on the event map.
• Take part in Step Games, complete daily goals and see your progress.
We’ve also improved GPS and elevation accuracy, indoor workout timing, Live Activities, sign-in reliability and overall performance.
1.4.1 Aug 31
Bug fixes, new features and performance improvements.
• Create your own challenges — set up a step or distance challenge right from the app
• Host tools — edit details, manage participants, and keep your event running smoothly
• In-app results — follow live standings and final results without leaving the app
• Secure in-app payments for hosting events
• Bug fixes and performance improvements
Thanks for using DistantRace! We're always updating the app with bug fixes and new features — keep it updated for the best experience.
1.4.0 Aug 21
Bug fixes, new features and performance improvements.
• step inflation fix
Thanks for using DistantRace! We're always updating the app with bug fixes and new features — keep it updated for the best experience.
1.3.17 Jul 28
Bug fixes, new features and performance improvements.
• step inflation fix
Thanks for using DistantRace! We're always updating the app with bug fixes and new features — keep it updated for the best experience.
1.3.14 Jul 9
Bug fixes, new features and performance improvements.
• Help & Support — report a problem or ask us a question in the app
• Improved Apple Health syncing, and bug fixes
Thanks for using DistantRace! We're always updating the app with bug fixes and new features — keep it updated for the best experience.
1.3.13 Jul 2
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Faster, smoother app startup
• Improved step-count accuracy and fewer false readings
• Added setup guidance for devices without a built-in step sensor
• Fixed a rare crash when interacting with on-screen messages
• Fixed an issue where the QR scanner could become unresponsive on iOS
• Improved handling of temporary connection issues so you stay signed in
• General stability and performance improvements
Thanks for using DistantRace! We're always updating the app with bug fixes and new features — keep it updated for the best experience.
1.3.12 Jun 8
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
• Improved Apple Health workout export reliability and diagnostics
• Reduced background sync log noise for smoother, more efficient syncing
• Fixed a Health data threading warning on iOS
• General stability and performance improvements
Thanks for using DistantRace! We're always updating the app with bug fixes and new features — keep it updated for the best experience.
1.3.11 Jun 2
- Fix profile image upload timeout
1.3.10 May 29
New UI redesign with improved navigation, consistency, and overall usability.
1.3.9 May 28
You can now record your activities and workouts in real time, with route tracking and an easy way to pause, resume, and finish your session.
1.3.8 Apr 23
fixes unexpected jumps to sign-in during the intro carousel and clearer “Next” behavior; steps & health: more reliable Apple Health sync, better timezone handling for stats, smoother daily stat coverage; stability: background sync and startup tuned for fewer interruptions.
1.3.7 Apr 10
Fixes how we detect your timezone so notifications match your local time.
1.3.6 Mar 30
Fewer surprise logouts from background sync
1.3.5 Mar 30
- update social logins to native sdk
1.3.2 Mar 29
fix apple workout route submission
1.3.1 Mar 18
- Improved stability and accuracy of step tracking with Apple Health.
- Fixed challenge cards sometimes showing “Finished” too early.
- Verified challenge image uploads and overall workout syncing.
- Better handling of connection problems with clearer retry messaging.
1.3.0 Mar 13
Bugfix release
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